Google is not just for searching. What do you find most interesting? What do you find most useful for educators? Post your thoughts in the Discussion Tab of our Google Group here You may start your own discussion and reply to at least one other person in the class.

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We will be using google docs and google forms in this class.

Here is a short video - Google docs in plain English :

Using Google Docs is as easy as A B C !!

Here's a tip sheet and resource guide in case you forget 'how to'.

Here are some tech integration ideas for K-12 classroom activities using google docs
Samples of students using google docs
Samples of teachers using google docs

Google Docs is one of many Google tools that help share and collaborate information and it saves trees! Besides documents, google has spreadsheets, presentations, forms and recently added drawing.

Google Docs for Educators

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Google forms are useful as a survey tool. You can post the form on your teacher page. The results become part of a a fully functional excel spreadsheet in your google docs.

(In case you need a refresher for using excel, click here)
If using with students, you may want to have a separate, required field for first name and last name, so you are able to sort the results.

Here's a tutorial to use googleforms to self-grade a quiz, if you enjoy using Excel:
http://classroomblogging.com/mov/tutorial_bloglines.mov ( There are many online quiz generators that are self-grading, such as thatquiz. moodle and SynchEyes also have self grading quiz capabilities, if available in your district.
If you forget how to create forms, you can use this resource

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What is RSS? Find what you need and have the updates come to you!

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ASSIGNMENT:

Take some time to find Internet resources that your students would find useful. Gather them in a Google Custom search engine, or Create a List in Diigo. Post the URL to our discussion group with an explanation of your purpose in creating it.

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